the rabbit and the turtle (part 1)

Tiny chumley's Sunday afternoon started to look like any other after he finished his lunch.  if anybuddy needs me i'll be keeping dad company and taking a nappypoo on the sofa, the jangle of his tags and the pad pad pad of his jaunty trot announced to the entire household.

I settled down in my studio to finish a few crafty projects, and life hummed at the lazy pace it always seems to at our house on a quiet warm afternoon, with voices from the television, clicks from the laptop keyboard, and whirs from my serger all providing vocals to the gentle breezy symphony of cool blowing air from our ductwork.

Minutes of normal passed, til a flash of movement outside my window caught my eye.  What?  I got up to tend to the duties that otherwise would have belonged to the little kielbasa.  If it's a kid I'm so yellin at them for - oooooo, "bunny!", I accidentally blurted out loud when I spied the reason I left my serger.  Uh oh.  There's no such thing as take back once Defcon 1 is declared.  I quickly walked over to the family room to saddle up our missile before he launched himself off the sofa.

lemme at him lemme at him hurry up open the door let's go this way let's go that way over here no over there oh why couldn't i come out sooner lemme at him it's a bunny where'd he go let's go this way let's go this way.  As we searched the yard, Tiny chumley's furious pace hardly let me get a word in edgewise, til finally with the sun beating down on both of us, I had to interrupt. "Sorry baby dog. I don't think he's out here anymore.  Let's go back inside and you can watch for bunnies from your kitty perch."

As his luck would have it, the bunny did come back moments later, and so, as my luck would have it, I put down my sewing and releashed our hound.

mom can u please keep your shoes on because next time we see him i am certain we can get out faster and then i can get him cuz didjoo see how close we got and if i got him will u let me keep him and how come he was in our front yard anyway cuz i have not seen a bunny in our front yard in forever so what is up with today and hey do u want a snackie i could use a snackie but maybe i should wait cuz i don't want to be chasin on a full stomach cuz duk duk says it will make u dizzy and oh u want i should keep u company here cuz methinks i will stay a while and watch for bunnies  didjoo see that bunny i chased he was cool wasn't he i hope he comes back, panted tiny chumley in rapid fire conversation when we came back inside. ooh, can can u please tell dad i will come back to the sofa and keep him company later cuz i am on bunny watch now?

Yes baby dog. 

Tiny chumley's boring Sunday was starting to look a lot like Funday.  :)

(to be continued)...